The rose with its secrets

Andy skyfall 1 story

Summary

"Can love protect a secret that’s meant to burn?" Efsun I stand in the middle of this perfect, quiet nursery and I feel like a ghost in my own home. My makeup is ruined, my eyes are raw from crying, and my hands keep reaching for a stomach that will never grow again. The doctor’s words are a death sentence I have to hear every morning: “You will never get pregnant.” It’s a finality that breaks me over and over. Sometimes, I swear I hear a baby crying in the corner, a tiny, thin sound that pulls at my heart—but when I turn around, there’s nothing but shadows. It’s just my mind playing cruel tricks on me. And then I think of Bahar. I see her living the life that was supposed to be mine, holding a baby with such ease, as if the world just handed her everything while it took everything from me. Why does she get the heartbeat, while I only get the echoes? Arda It’s the silence that’s the loudest. I watch Efsun walk into that room and I see her spirit dying a little more every day. She’s mourning a child she never got to hold, and a future the doctors took away with a single sentence. I see her flinch when she hears the wind, thinking it’s a cry, and it destroys me that I can’t give her the one thing she wants. I’m holding a woman who is hollowed out by grief, watching her look at Bahar with a look that’s half-envy and half-death. I’d give my life to hear a real cry in this house, but instead, I just hold her while she weeps for a nursery that will always be empty.